Category: Perfusion Devices
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Excerpt: A Foward from LVAD 1
It is ironic that Frank calls me a hero, where he and all perfusionists are the real heroes… perhaps we all are heroes, the way a Bull Rider straps to a bull and completes his or her 8 second ride.
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Excerpt- “Let’s go on Sucker Bypass!”
A shower of betadine hits the patient’s chest like a like a firemen’s bucket parade- dousing a fire, surgical drapes are thrown down, lines are passed off and divided, chest or femoral incisions are made, patient is heparinized and when that ACT hits 350 seconds? We are going on bypass Baybee!
The Tips of Spears... 